Irish America

ISBN-13: 9780198233558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 328 str.

Reginald Byron

Opis

Few writers have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generations of intermarriage and assimilation over the last century and a half. This study, based on interviews with 500 people of Irish ancestry, aims to discover in what senses the present-day descendants of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants possess distinctive social practices and ways of seeing the world.

Recenzje

It is a pleasure to welcome this book into the front ranks of Irish diaspora studies.

O autorze

Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Long Island, New York Research Professor of Anthropology, Union College, Schenectady, New York